L. Andrikiene MEP on access of third-country goods and services to the Union's market in public procurement

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Plenary debate on the Report on the proposal for a Regulation of the Parliament and of the Council on the access of third-country goods and services to the Union’s internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries

Speech by Laima Andrikienė MEP (EPP, Lithuania)

StrasbourgJanuary 14, 2014

Commissioner,Colleagues,

We fully acknowledge that there is an increasing mismatch between the legal openness of the EU's public procurement markets, the EU's ambitions and interests in this area, and, on the other hand, restrictive practices by major trading partners.

EU's ongoing efforts to open up public procurement markets for EU companies in third countries is to be complemented. And that is exactly what Commission is trying to do. The Commission's proposal aims at creating a new instrument which seeks redress of the lack of leverage in the EU's international trade negotiations and to gain substantial market access commitments for the benefit of EU business.

The amended proposal suggested by our Rapporteur Daniel Caspary and voted in INTA Committee is a further step to improve the original text of the Commission which gives the Commission a major role in determining the exclusion of the foreign bidders and introducing more legal certainties. At the same time the amended proposal is a real alternative to the original one.

I will vote in favour of the amended proposal and I suggest to my colleagues to support it also.

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